The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-04-06
BISHOP GALLEHER's ADDRESS.

the Tulane University, in New Or
leans on the 30th ult:
Dean Of the Faculty and Gentlemen
and Ladies Let me first make m,
sincere Acknowledgements for the cour
tesy extended to me in asking me t.
make an address on this occasion, ant
present my regret at not being able tt
more perfectly prepare what have tt
say. wonld have much preferred tt
have listened to the silvery words O.
the distinguished and beloved gentle
man who has just taken his seat. Blu
| had not sufficient self-denial to put
away from me the pleasure of speak
ing to you to-day.
Finding myself complimented witt
this duty, sent word to the dean, ask.
lug what topic l should select He
replied that might use any text but
the "thirtv-nine articles" / think the
field outside of them, as you will find,
is broad enough for my present use
and | will take for granted that you
Young gentlemen of the graduating
class are sufficiently conversant with
these thirty-nine articles to preclude
the necessity of my instructing you as
to their teaching.
Bishop Galleher then read the aph-
orisms of Hypercrates, uttered, he sta
ted, 500 years before Christ. These,
the bishop said, are words of wisdom
which it were well for you, my young
friends, to ponder. But it is not of
the doctrines of medicine l wish to
speak to You to-day, but upon the
theme of generations past and to come.
l hear on all sides of me q senti-
lnent expressed which has in it much
Of hope and thought of great signif-
icance when wisely understood. "The
New South"-that which is hymped,
that which is largely the burden of
orators, that which is largely the bnr-
den of orators, that which men accus-
toned to tersely pencil thought for the
press dwell upon-let me say to yon
in your hopeful outlook into the prom
sing future, do not forget "the old
South" Do not turn away from the
memories of the eventful past, through
which your forefathers bore noble
part. We, who are living the last
part of our generation, know some
hing of those perils and trials and
sorrows that told of what the men and
of the Old South were made.
We were born not in an ignoble time,
Tor OF an ignoble people = nor yet
wed we then in an ignoble way
That old time, those old memories
we're not buried on the field of Apo
nattox. They live with us yet. They
we're only laid to rest. Woe to the
'ation that can turn its back on its
ecord and forget the lives of its p,o.
'enitors. Let it be far from us, my
riends, in order to be loyal to the
lew, to bury the old. No student of
history can afford to hide away the
acts of our early life in the South.
Who was it that came into this mighty
iilderness of timber and swamp and
repaired this land for the light of
and civilization 1t was
self-denying, industrious, en-
men and women, who stood
'ont to front score after score of years
18th malarious disease and death. in
rider that those who were to come
fter them might enjoy the fruits of
leir toll.
Whatever may be the criticism about
lie lives of the people of the old South,
e, who know them, are proud of such
ancestry. Where was to be found
more hearty hospitality, more digni-
!, more nobility Of character, more
onesty of life, more fidelity to princi-
lie, than among those who were the
'unders of the prosperity of the new
oath. What more wonderful specta.
e of heroic sacrifice has been seen by
le nations of the earth than that spec
cle of four years. endurance of such
ardships and sufferings as so attract
! the eyes of the world as to make it
tn to tarn away from the sight. For
1T not those memorable years, note
e lives of those whose brave deeds
e our proud Inheritance, remember
e cruel carnage of Gettysburg and
Corinth. In the coming week there
i'll be celebrated in this city the he
ic death of General Albert Sidney
,hnstnn n.a &c H.